Issa Dance

It's a dance! Hope you enjoy.

Hey @WowBroThatWasReallyEdgy!

It's great to hear another of your expertly orchestrated pieces!  This one gives me vibes of Debussy - especially his "Petite Suite" - "Ballet".  It's a great early work of Debussy - I highly recommend it!  There's not much to critique here, the piece is very well conceived orchestrally, harmonically and melodically and stays lucid and interesting throughout its duration.  I just wish it was longer.  Another thing is that the theme made me expect a more impressionistic approach to harmony, but it ended up being a more functional common practice type of harmony.  Thanks for sharing!

Peter, thank you very much for listening and your feedback.

15 hours ago, PeterthePapercomPoser said:

This one gives me vibes of Debussy - especially his "Petite Suite" - "Ballet".  It's a great early work of Debussy - I highly recommend it!

I will have to check it out! The vision of this piece was actually created when I rewatched Harry Potter & The Goblet of Fire - the scene where Harry and Ron are at the bottom of the stairs and see Hermoine (I think I'm spelling that right) come down the stairs for the dance.

15 hours ago, PeterthePapercomPoser said:

I just wish it was longer.

My current plan is to make 3-to-5-minute pieces that differ in character, tone, and color while using the same orchestral template. This dance, along with Tyrant, will be the 3rd movement in a 4-movement suite for orchestra. I'm currently working on a piece called Abraxas that is similar to Tyrant in tempo and energy. However, Abraxas will be more diabolic sounding.

Good stuff here

Awesome! The orchestration is great, very reminiscent of Tchaikovsky. I really like the buildup at the end to the big trombone descending scale. The only constructive thing I would say is I think the trombones should play something instead of a descending scale here. Maybe try and find one of the descending motives from somewhere else in the piece? I think this would give the piece more overall motivic unity and make this moment more impactful.

Either way very well done, thanks for sharing!

5 hours ago, gmm said:

Awesome! The orchestration is great, very reminiscent of Tchaikovsky.

Thank you! I appreciate that; it means a lot coming from an orchestrator like yourself. 

5 hours ago, gmm said:

The only constructive thing I would say is I think the trombones should play something instead of a descending scale here.

I believe you're talking about page 10 in the pdf, right? In truth, I'm not entirely satisfied with the ending either. It feels compositionally hurried. 

This has me reconsidering writing a different ending with more in common with the rest of the piece.

Thanks for the feedback!

A lovely dance - reminiscent of the 1950's Broadway musicals and/or movies dance numbers.  Quite delightful.

Mark